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  • Richard M. Nixon Served As The 37th President Of ...

    Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
     | 1,864 views

    Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States. He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later. His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White ...read more

  • The Need Of A Clarion ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
     | 2,728 views

    THE NEED OF A CLARION VOICE Sanders wrote in his epic book Spiritual leadership, "The church has always prospered most when it has been blessed with strong and spiritual leaders who expected and experienced the touch of God in their service. The lack of such men is a symptom of the malaise that ...read more

  • Civil War General Desires Baptism After Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2009
     | 2,586 views

    Civil War General Desires Baptism After being Mortally Wounded Gen. William Nelson, a Union general in the Civil War, was consumed with the battles in Kentucky when a brawl ended up in his being shot, mortally, in the chest. He had faced many battles, but the fatal blow came while he was relaxing ...read more

  • Sin And Hypocrites  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,602 views

    Sin and Hypocrites Some mistakenly think that they are free to sin, just so long as they aren't hypocrites about it, that the worst form of sin is hypocrisy. Often one hears it said, "I know I'm not perfect, but at least I'm not hypocritical about it." A few years ago in Texas there were two men ...read more

  • John Wesley: "It Is Impossible For Any That Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 7, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
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    John Wesley: "It is impossible for any that have it, to conceal the religion of Jesus Christ... As well may men think to hide a city, as to hide a Christian; yea, as well may they conceal a city set upon a hill, as a holy, zealous, active lover of God and man." He goes on to say that "it is ...read more

  • If We'd Only Joined Hands Sooner  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,592 views

    IF WE'D ONLY JOINED HANDS SOONER A number of years ago in Canada, a little two-year-old girl wandered away from her neighborhood. It was a cold, winter day. Her parents alerted the neighbors and they saw some tracks in the snow, but there were a lot of other tracks, so for several hours the ...read more

  • The Market Survey  PRO

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Mar 20, 2012
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,786 views

    THE MARKET SURVEY Before coming to the Biblical text of my message, I would like to recite the tale of 2 footwear salesmen sent on a "market survey" errand by their employers to explore the possibility of opening a shop in a certain village of their country. As opening a shop entails sizeable ...read more

  • This Part Of The Bible Paul Wrote In The Greek ...

    Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on May 9, 2008
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    This part of the Bible Paul wrote in the Greek language. The word he used here is προκοπή prokopé̄ . It means to drive forward. It is the beautiful picture of pioneers cutting there way through the wilderness. This is the team that slashes their way ...read more

  • Fair-Weather Christians  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 9, 2008
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     | 2,647 views

    FAIR-WEATHER CHRISTIANS During the American Revolution, farmers who joined the Continental Army during the spring and summer went AWOL in the fall and winter. They were known as "summer soldiers". They signed up with the Army after their crops were planted, they fought the British over the ...read more

  • Do You Know The Poem, "If’, By Rudyard Kipling? ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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    Do you know the poem, "If’, by Rudyard Kipling? I’m sure you’ve heard it a hundred times. But let me quote just a part of "If’. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for ...read more

  • Do You Know The Poem, "If’, By Rudyard Kipling? ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
     | 985 views

    Do you know the poem, "If’, by Rudyard Kipling? I’m sure you’ve heard it a hundred times. But let me quote just a part of "If’. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for ...read more

  • Last Words

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Feb 6, 2013
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    LAST WORDS My father worked for the railroad when I was younger. One night a train was backing up to hook up to some other cars and one man was not watching. He was in the way and the train made the connection right through his body. He did not die immediately, but he knew he had only a short ...read more

  • Humble Confidence

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Aug 11, 2014
     | 4,940 views

    At the outset, I desire to bring to the fore, a ‘juicy’ tale adorning Science history. When, the invention-coal miner’s lamp- of Sir Humphrey Davy began to pale relatively before the astounding discoveries of his far more illustrious pupil Michael Faraday (in the field of electro-magnetism and ...read more

  • The Power Of God's Word!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 25, 2021
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,303 views

    How powerful is the Preached Word of God?  On October 7, 1857, C. H. Spurgeon preached to his largest audience ever, some 23, 654 assembled in the mammoth Crystal Palace for a national day of fasting and prayer. A few days before the event Spurgeon had gone to the huge hall to test the ...read more

  • Faith And Works Should Travel Side By Side, Step ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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    Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again -- until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other. William ...read more

  • Faith And Works Should Travel Side By Side, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Jul 26, 2002
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     | 3,157 views

    “Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again -- until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other” (William ...read more

  • William Booth Tied Faith And Works Together ...  PRO

    Contributed by Noah Kaye on Apr 21, 2005
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    • William Booth tied faith and works together perfectly when He said this in an article in Christianity Today “Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then ...read more

  • Newspapers Have Two Great Advantages Over ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Newspapers have two great advantages over television. They can be used by men as barriers against their wives. It is still the only effective screen against the morning features of the loved one, and, as such, performs a unique human service. The second advantage ...read more

  • When All The Mountains In The World Have Been ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,685 views

    "When all the mountains in the world have been scaled, when the poles hold no more secrets, when the last acre of the last continent has been traversed, when, in short, everything on our planet is known and catalogued, the way will still be open for discovery. The world ...read more

  • Take Action. Procrastination Is The Death Blow ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 2,710 views

    "Take action. Procrastination is the death blow to self-motivation. I'll do it later...after I get organized is the language of the unsuccessful and the frustrated. Successful, highly motivated men and women don't put it off. They know their lives are no more than the ...read more